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A maker built a miniature soccer environment for Sesame, a small quadruped robot, and demonstrated the system at the 2026 Open Sauce maker event. The build includes a scaled down soccer pitch sized for the robot, along with 3D printed goals and structural components. Multiple Sesame units are controlled wirelessly using the ESP-NOW protocol, with ESP32 chips on each robot communicating with a…

CAMARILLO, Calif. Aug 19- Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading provider of high-performance semiconductors powering AI data center networking and intelligent, connected Internet of Things (“IoT”) devices worldwide, today announced the expansion of its LoRa Plus family with the introduction of the LR2022 and LR2012 transceivers, both now available in…

Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics just launched a tiny robot that could change how people learn robotics at home. Called Microduck, this 25cm tall, 780 gram biped robot is built specifically for reinforcement learning and physical AI and it costs just $399. Unlike Reachy Mini, which was designed primarily around interaction and conversational AI, Microduck focuses on physical movement and…

Arduino has opened pre-orders for the VENTUNO Q, a new edge-AI development platform built around Qualcomm’s Dragonwing IQ8 processor. The board is aimed at developers building robotics, computer vision, industrial automation and other systems where AI needs to interact with the physical world. According to Ankit Singh, Arduino’s India lead, the introductory pricing…

A maker from the Youtube channel PickentCode has built a working steampunk computer powered entirely by a Stirling engine, combining a 19th-century mechanical invention with modern electronics and retro computing. The Stirling engine was developed by Robert Stirling in 1816 as an alternative to the high-pressure steam engines of the time. Unlike a conventional internal-combustion engine, it…

A simple candle flame can be used as a small thermal power source when combined with a thermoelectric generator (TEG), a solid-state device that converts a temperature difference directly into electrical energy. A maker from the YouTube channel The Action Lab recently demonstrated this concept by using a candle to heat one side of a thermoelectric module while continuously circulating water…

TDK Corporation (TSE:6762) today announced the launch of the TDK SensEI edgeRX PRO, a new high-performance sensor node that expands its predictive maintenance platform, edgeRX.

edgeRX PRO integrates vibration, acoustic, magnetic, temperature, and rotational motion sensing, leveraging an integrated 6-axis IMU and edge AI processing in…

In 1991, Mazda built one of the strangest vehicles ever made, a car that could fold into a suitcase. Only three promotional prototypes were created, and just one is believed to have survived. Instead of trying to find the original, a maker from the YouTube channel Bucket decided to build a working replica from scratch. The original Mazda Suitcase Car used a square tube chassis, solid rear axle…

YouTuber Zachary McCune from Corridor Crew has turned a simple fire spinning hobby into an ambitious engineering project that can create images in the air while spinning. The project uses the principle of persistence of vision (POV), where rapidly changing lights appear to form a continuous image when moved quickly through space. Instead of using a conventional screen, the device displays an…

21 August 2026: Circuit Digest has been named the Digital Content & Outreach Partner for electronica India 2026, taking place from 16–18 September at BIEC, Bengaluru.

As part of the collaboration, Circuit Digest will identify relevant industry voices, shape discussion themes, host the conversations and distribute the resulting content across its website, YouTube channel and social…

Naz Louis has upgraded his open-source robot Pixel, giving the walking desk robot a new AI system that can see, remember, and reason about its surroundings in real time. The new build runs on Gemini Robotics ER2, an embodied-reasoning model built by Google DeepMind for near real-time robotics applications. The model receives a continuous stream of camera and microphone input and has direct…

TICKEY is a compact clip-on gadget that combines a 3.7-inch, 720 × 480 color e-paper display with an ESP32-S3 microcontroller, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and NFC. Instead of behaving like a normal LCD or OLED screen, its e-paper display is designed to keep a static image visible without continuously consuming display power. Users can show pixel art, photos, digital badges, QR codes, notes or personal…